Why isn’t this illegal?
M$ in all of its glory and wisdom has a nice little feature Windows XP to make it auto download SP2. My question is, isn’t that illegal? I’m all for updates, only when I feel that the update is worth it. But having my computer download something that I don’t/might not want?! To get around the auto download, M$ has a tool kit to ‘hack’ the registry, but still, that’s messed up.
If you recall the controversy over XP’s EULA, you’ll recall that part of it was surrounding the fact that by agreeing to the EULA, you allow Microsoft to download and install software onto your machine, without having to tell you it’s doing it.
Yes I did read the EULA, and yes I did click the I Agree button. However one could argue, weakly, that you are forced to agree other wise you would have a useless box. I say that this is a weak arguement because there are plenty of other OS’s out there but to the common person there is one and only one, Windbloz.